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Families get instructions on how to adjust their children's "sensory diets" to help them function better at home and in school. Christopher Medema, 7, now puts a weighted blanket on his lap when he's doing seatwork at school. The steady pressure meets some of his need for tactile input and helps him focus. His family has learned to accommodate his craving for motion. "He likes doing math flash cards standing on his head," says his dad, Steven...
...home. They suffer from an epidemic of "anomie," as Harvard psychologist William Pollack told me, adrift in a world of change without the help they need to find their way. Even in the youngest grades, test-oriented teachers focus energy on conventional exercises in reading, writing and other seatwork, areas in which girls tend to excel. At the same time, schools are cutting science labs, physical education and recess, where the experiential learning styles of boys come into play. No wonder, the theory goes, our boys get jittery, grow disruptive and eventually tune out. "A boy will get a reputation...
...circulation is 133,000, but three teachers (average) use each copy. Aimed at country and small-town teachers, who use more individual ingenuity in their teaching than those in big cities where curriculums are fixed, the Instructor each month brings them a famous painting in color, lessons for "seatwork," songs, plays, drawings, tests, suggestions for trips, lessons in manners (see cut). Its avowed object is to make teaching...
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